Capitol Police firings imminent after 'attempted coup,' top appropriator warns

[Denzil_DC]

With control of both chambers and the White House, Democrats could mandate changes among the Capitol Police force.

The top House appropriator charged with funding the Capitol Police vowed Wednesday to investigate the law enforcement response to the violent mob that overtook the Capitol building and alluded to firings to come among the force.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) told reporters after the rioting had subsided that "there were some strategic mistakes from the very beginning."

“I think it’s pretty clear that there’s going to be a number of people who are going to be without employment very, very soon," Ryan said, "because this is an embarrassment — both on behalf of the mob and the president, and the insurrection and the attempted coup, but also the lack of professional planning and dealing with what we knew was going to occur."
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Ryan noted video footage that went viral of Capitol Police officers allowing rioters past fencing in order to access the building. “I have no idea why that would be permissible,” he said. “That’s unacceptable. … We’ll be looking at all of that.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/capitol-riots-police-firings-455698

[servermsh]

1. Fantastic! Figure out the traitors and fire their ass!

[Enterstageleft]

8. Don't just fire them, indict them as accessories.

Take their law enforcement credentials away, & rescind their pensions & retirement.

They tried to help overthrow the government of the US. MAKE THEM PAY!

[Hiawatha Pete]

33. Preach!

[orangecrush]

2. No shit

[rockfordfile]

11. I agree

[soothsayer]

3. Defund the USCP!

Kidding!

But heads should roll.

[Kittycow]

4. , the Selfie cop needs fired posthaste

[PatSeg]

15. Yeah, how stupid can he be?

A selfie? Did he think that picture would just disappear?

[Cha]

18. YES.. the most Stupid self incriminating

selfie he'll ever take!

[orleans]

21. i must have missed it, does anyone have a link for it? n/t

[Cha]

24. Sorry, I don't. I'm still catching

up to all that happened today in DC. But I read about the "selfie" earlier in a thread.

We'll probably see it at some point.. I'm still wrapping my mind around that it actually happened!

[orleans]

29. i just googled

and there are a couple articles with embedded tweets
so here are a couple i found
i think the selfie pic is from today, along with cops opening gates

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Cha]

34. Jesus.. Unreal! WTF good are they?

Are they so stupid they didn't know this shit was being recorded?! Did they care so little about their jobs and record?!

Was that one terrorist saying "hey cop hey cop"?

Thank you for this, orleans.. seeing is believing!

[StarryNite]

41. They let them in and ushered them along.

Disgusting.

[uponit7771]

47. +1

[bluestarone]

56. Absolutely!

Dumb fucks!!

[live love laugh]

52. 💯

[Hoyt]

5. If I'm not mistaken, Ryan is part of the governing board of Capitol Police along

with reps from Senate.

The WH has no authority.

https://www.uscp.gov/the-department/oversight

[dalton99a]

6. A disastrous failure and a national embarrassment.

https://www.uscp.gov/the-department/executive-team

[BeyondGeography]

7. It was an utter breakdown

Heads must roll.

[beachbumbob]

9. Goes way deeper than this. Who in govt ordered no federal security to be onsite?

No contingents of FBI, no homeland security no federal marshals. Zero presence of force on the square, NO backup forces any where.

This was rigged to leave the Capital a few Congress vulnerable. We are lucky the mob did not have 50 heavily armed members inside the building as we be talking about dead senators and congress people tonight,

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. As always, you see everything more clearly +1

[beachbumbob]

25. This was orchestrated and planned, all roads lead to trump and

Stephen Miller, if democrats in congress do not pursue with vigor, we are in great peril going forward.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

32. I am jaded. They won't. :(. They let him coerce an electiion

official and turned a blind eye.

Perhaps everyone ( most everyone) knows he's dangerous and are just waiting the two weeks out?

[Cha]

28. TY.. I want heads to roll in kind.

[smirkymonkey]

42. +1000

[uponit7771]

48. They left bombs, they were heavily armed

[beachbumbob]

49. no they were not heavily armed, zero signs of assualt weapons and if they had them, yesterday

would have ended much worse.

look at this as a test run.

[Hekate]

10. Please be sure to do that, Senator. Today has been completely wtf

[PurgedVoter]

12. I think a rather strong, "Do not rehire." is in order.

I rather think this needs to go on a few peoples permanent record.

[Mr. Ected]

13. This was enabled, not an accident. This is Trump's American Benghazi

And we need to never quit reminding them about it.

[Cha]

31. Right. Not random.. coordinated ..

by whom? Who helped trump?. Lots of pieces of the shock puzzle to put together.

Thank goodness for the quick thinking of Senator Merkley's aide.. Can't find his name yet..

Link to tweet

[yaesu]

14. MSNBC: Where the fuck is the law enforcement briefings, not a peep from any law enforcement offices

I added the fuck but any other time there would be several briefing like, WTF?

[Cha]

16. WTF.. the capitol police let the looters in?

Were they on trump's personal payroll?!!

I hope we hear the end of what happens to them.. fucking traitors.

[Catherine Vincent]

19. Good!

They are fans of Trump. They let it happen!

[BarbD]

20. Did they think white "protesters" would behave themselves?

Watching the ease of these terrorists storming the building was bone-chilling. Trump and his enablers knew perfectly well what they were doing. It was an attempted coup.

They are all domestic terrorists, seditionists, traitors and should be dealt with as such.

[quakerboy]

22. Some of them that work forces

Are the same that burn crosses.


And the rest are their buddies.

[BobTheSubgenius]

23. Even though we got very little detail in descriptions, or good video, it looked very, very fishy.

If collusion or just plain dereliction is found, charges are appropriate.

[SunSeeker]

26. Let's start with the cop taking selfies with the terrorists in the Capitol.

And the world saw it all.


Here's Aussie media showing about the selfie and other outragious acts.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/vision-emerges-of-police-moving-barricades-to-allow-rioters-into-us-capitol-taking-selfies/news-story/45a9be3adf9b447b53d23cf5536c5d02


A horrible, humiliation for our country.

[gratuitous]

27. There are miles of video footage

A huge number of the miscreants, both in and out of uniform, will be identifiable and subject to prosecution. Find a couple of new Representatives looking to make a name for themselves, and lower the boom.

As Teddy Lewis said in Body Heat: "any time you try a decent crime, you got fifty ways you're gonna fuck up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you're a genius... and you ain't no genius." In the photos and videos I saw today, genius was in short supply.

[Richard58]

30. Heads must roll!

I was appalled at the inaction of the Capital Police! There was no firing of tear gas canisters, no rubber bullets fired! All I saw were cops gently pushing back on the surging crowd. If this had been BLM protesters the cops would be cracking skulls, firing tear gas and rubber bullets everywhere! Seriously WTF? And cops stood by as the loons broke windows and smashed in doors to get into the Capital. Hell they even let them walk right past them! I have never seen such restrained cops in all my life! Anyone with a brain knows they had to be in cahoots with the protesters! There is no other explanation. It was outrageous to watch! It seemed like they only had 50 cops there! Where was the National Guard? Where were the other security agencies? This needs to be thoroughly investigated!

[Duppers]

38. Amen! But perhaps not "in cahoots with the protesters!"

BUT at least in sympathy. OR they were just the most cowardly cops ever.

[StarfishSaver]

40. Or a combination

Some officers could have been in cahoots, some were obviously sympathetic and some were just cowards. But some appeared to be completely overwhelmed. There was no way one or two or three officers could have held back the hundreds of people mobbing certain points. And, watching this, I got the impression that none of the officers had any authorization to use lethal force under this circumstance. They seemed to be trying to hold people back but when they kept pushing, they just backed up and in some instances, ran away while calling for assistance. I think they weren't authorized to shoot anyone unless they were in immediate fear of death or serious injury.

[BannonsLiver]

35. They can start with the officer who kept backing away from like one guy

As though he was leading a tour.

[Hortensis]

36. I'm confused by the relationship between the Capitol Police

and the DoJ, except that apparently there is one. Something like 62 were arrested out of 100s of the worst lawbreakers. Someone on O'Donnell said the crowd attacking the Capitol was about 3000.

People in the know have commented on the striking silence from the various involved law enforcement agencies after the events, stating that normally agencies like the CapPol, FBI, DHS, etc, etc, would hold a press conference with their spokespeople lined up to speak. We've all watched those. Instead, silence this afternoon and tonight.

Given this debacle, the promises of plans and people to carry them out that never happened, I'm wondering if some agencies are refusing to stand with another(s) because they're investigating it or them. And what comes next. Norm Ornstein is very concerned but believes the rule of law is holding and wll get us through the next 14 days. No one seems to believe the "lackeys" in the cabinet, as one person very deliberately called them, will invoke the 25th.

[StarfishSaver]

39. There is no direct connection other than that they are both federal law enforcement agencies

The various federal law enforcement agencies often coordinate and work together - especially on certain events like the Inauguration and State of the Union Address.

And different agencies often back each other up - for example, the National Guard or DOJ or Homeland Security could have backed up the Capitol Police today if their assistance had been requested.

But they're managed separately operate within different hierarchies in different branches of government.

[Hortensis]

43. Thanks. It's morning now. The election's certified.

I can't remember who was suggesting the DoJ, what, might have had some influence? It could have been unofficial, part of the hot mess around Trump; the comment was in the context of speculating about the lack of preparation for what happened. But considering everything, it's nice to hear the DoJ would have no legal authority, even tenuous.

[StarfishSaver]

51. DOJ security/FBI could have been sent over as backup

[Hortensis]

53. Heard the FBI estimated DC crowds of @20,000,

may have been 40,000 or more, comparatively deliberately light on LW counterprotesters. They wanted to avoid any potential "Tiananmen" effect by appearance of militarizing against a heavily trumpist crowd, given 70M Americans had just voted for him.

Should have worked.

[StarfishSaver]

54. I understand. But they sure don't mind a "Tiananmen" effect when policing Black and Brown protesters

[BComplex]

57. No shit. This was white privilege on steroids.

Right there for everyone in the world to see.

[benld74]

37. Head of Cap police appointed by tRump 2017

Gee,,,,

[Sunsky]

44. "You about to lose yo job"

That was my comment on IG when I 1st saw the video of the police smiling for photos with the miscreants. Same for those who walked away while the thugs were breaking through barricades and storming the building.
They deserve to lose their jobs because they aren't ready for prime time. We can't have terrorists easily entering our government buildings, putting in jeopardy the lives of our elected officials. I am so livid. They basically opened the door for the criminals.

[malaise]

45. There must be a press conference today

about this

[Hermit-The-Prog]

46. We should need lots more jail cells to hold all the co-conspirators.

[qanda]

50. They were talked into backing down from controlling the crowd...

Right before the woman was shot and killed. There was an interview with a guy on CNN who said how it all happened. If you watch the video of the shooting, you will see the police force starting to walk down the stairs right before the crowd tried to get into the House Chamber.

[StarfishSaver]

55. I think CP wasn't trained for this type of situation

They're trained to control large, peaceful crowds and individual or small group attacks. They probably were never trained and were obviously completely unprepared to handle a mob like this. Just watch the clips where 3 or 4 officers are trying to push back hundreds of surging people. And it seems they were not allowed to use their weapons - most of them were trying to use nightsticks as barriers and then they just backed up or gave up.

A complete mess.